To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.